HPSG Diagrams

[Ivan A. Sag]

I had the same reaction as Martin. Plus, are non-latex users aware that a
latex feature structure could be drawn as simply as:

\bfs
\[PHON & love\\
  SYN  & \[FEAT & val\\
          FEAT & val\]\\
  SEM & \[... \] \] \efs

(you could rename \bfs or \efs however you like)

Rob Malouf's macros (and no doubt others) make trees with avms in them easy,
too:

\bt
\br{S}
{\br{NP}{\br{N}{\lf{Kim}}}
 \br{VP}{\br{V}{\lf{walks}}}} \et

\bt
\br{S}
{\br{\[CAT & NP\\
       SEM & Kim'\]}{\br{N}{\lf{Kim}}}
 \br{\[CAT & VP\\
       SEM & walk'\]}{\br{V}{\lf{walks}}}} \et

Once you've left pure WYSIWYG mode, do you really need something simpler than
this? Or have I just lost my perspective on simplicity?

Best,
Ivan

> On Tue, 3 Dec 2002, kaplan wrote:
>
> > is there any way of typing in a tree-description (e.g. something
> > like a labeled bracketing) and having it pop out to a nicely drawn
> > tree?
>
> There is one for LaTeX -- the standard, venerable, stable, virtually
> bug-free, ubiquitous, easy to use, free, low-cost, multi-platform,
> backwards compatible, no-nonsense, full-featured typesetting solution.
>
> - martin
>